摘要
作为纳撒尼尔•霍桑(Nathaniel Hawthorne)的代表作之一，《红字》于1850年一经问世，便引起了巨大轰动，在时隔一个半世纪后的今日仍是不朽的经典名著。小说以深邃的主题，象征、隐喻等艺术手法的应用而形成了独特的风格，因而成为美国浪漫主义小说的代表作，同时也被称作是美国心理略论小说的开创篇。作为一部经典著作，也就意味着它一直备受关注和争议，评论家对《红字》这篇著作的解读也已经至臻完美。然而，对于这部著作悲剧性的探讨至今仍然稍显单薄。因此找到一种合适的途径去研讨《红字》的悲剧性在当下的探讨中十分重要。
众所周知，霍桑在《红字》中刻画了女主人公海斯特•白兰，牧师迪姆斯代尔及医生齐林窝斯三人各自不同却又殊途同归的悲剧命运。既然是悲剧，那么自然可以用悲剧理论来进行深入略论。在现代悲剧理论中，最合适用来略论霍桑著作的莫过于叔本华的悲剧理论了。鉴于当前这方面的探讨还比较少，所以本文试图从书本华悲剧理论中的悲剧结局，悲剧三种类型去研讨《红字》中三个主人公的悲剧命运以及这部著作的悲剧性。
叔本华悲剧理论的核心是三种悲剧类型的划分。本文主要以这三个人物为主线，是用叔本华定义的悲剧类型来研讨《红字》这本书的悲剧性。具体来说就是通过略论故事中人物命运的走向，英语论文范文，原因以及表现形式来阐述叔本华定义的三种悲剧形式是如何完美而又统一的交叉共存于这一作品中。因此，本文分为五个部分。第一部分，英语毕业论文，简要介绍《红字》及其作者；第二部分，国内外探讨近况；第三部分，叔本华悲剧理论核心内容介绍；第四部分，用叔本华悲剧类型去略论《红字》的悲剧性；第五部分，论文总结和反思。
关键词：叔本华，悲剧理论，《红字》，悲剧类型.
Abstract
As one of the greatest works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter has been an enduring masterpiece in the literature history in the one and a half century since it came out in 1850. The novel has a rather unique style which is created by its intangible ideas, its use of a variety of artistic techniques such as symbolism and metaphor. That's also the reason why the Scarlet Letter becomes the reprehensive work of American romanticism and a pioneer of American psychoanalytic novel.
As a controversial production, the critics have analyzed the wok profoundly from many aspects .For example; they interpret from symbolism, which includes discussion of the symbolic meaning of the title and the names in the book. However, as to the study on the tragedy of this novel, the research achievement is rather stuffless. So it's pretty important to find out a suitable way to study the tragedy of The Scarlet Letter.
As is well-known to us all, Hawthorne presents us three tragic protagonists. Now that the book is a tragedy, it's natural that we use tragedy theories to analyze the tragedy of the book. Of all the modern tragedy theories, Schopenhauer's view on tragedy is the most appropriate one to act as guidance. In light of the current research status, I figure out that study of this field is relatively less. Thus, this thesis attempts to use the tragedy theory of Schopenhauer, especially his illustrations of three tragedy types, to discuss the tragic fate of the three main characters in The Scarlet Letter.
The centre of Schopenhauer's view on tragedy is the classification of the tragedy types. Then in my paper, I will focus on the tragic life of the three main characters --Roger Chillingworth, Arthur Dimmedesdale, and Hester Prynne. By analyzing their tragic life to show how the three types of tragedies are integrated with the life of the three people.
Key words: Schopenhauer，tragedy theory, The Scarlet Letter, tragedy types |
